tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 18 08:12:36 1999
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Re: Cardassians and Bajorans
ja' charghwI'
> Please explicitly identify when you are coining original ideas
> for words. Someone somewhere will mistakenly think you are
> relating something Okrand said and they will write it down in
> their personal dictionary and they won't note the source and a
> year from now when someone is trying to put together lists of
> words like this, someone will come along and claim that Okrand
> used these words. Trust me on this. It has already happened with
> other pseudo-words. The most amusing incident relates to the
> word {'I'}, which ~mark made up in a side comment on whim. It is
> now an official word because when Okrand heard about it, he was
> amused and declared it real.
[snip]
> > Also, we have <verenganar> Ferenganar,
>
> We do, do we? Nice of you to proclaim that for us. Would you
> mind giving a citation for where Okrand gave us this word?
>
> > and <qu'arIq> Quark?
>
> Again, would you mind giving the citation?
Sorry, I get carried away sometimes. <verengar> and <qu'arIq> DO NOT EXIST
AS CANON!!! I WAS WRONG!! There, is honour satified?
quljIb
(verengan jIHbe'!)